Top Stories of the Day // October 3, 2018

MIT, Google, Cisco and USPTO create Prior Art Archive for better patents | Haptx is bringing touch to VR with a pair of scary-looking gloves and a pneumatic suitcase | Upwork pops more than 50 percent in Nasdaq debut | Meet the woman leading Accel's consumer growth investments | Iron Ox opens its first fully autonomous farm | FEMA is about to send a 'Presidential Alert' to millions of U.S. phones | Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders |

THE DAILY CRUNCH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 2018 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Brian Heater MIT, Google, Cisco and USPTO create Prior Art Archive for better patents The patent system is broken — there are too many ways to list here, really. The problems surrounding prior art are certainly among them, and a team of high profile... Read More… Lucas Matney Haptx is bringing touch to VR with a pair of scary-looking gloves and a pneumatic suitcase I haven't seen a virtual reality glove system that also includes a suitcase-sized pneumatic box accessory before, but then again there aren't too many VR peripherals that have delivered quite... Read More… Danny Crichton Upwork pops more than 50 percent in Nasdaq debut Upwork, the rebranded merger of oDesk and Elance, debuted on Nasdaq this morning, after dropping its S-1 about four weeks ago. Shares opened at $23.00, which represents a 53% jump... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Indiegogo and Ingram Micro Join the E-commerce Startup Workshop in San Francisco Join Indiegogo and Ingram Micro Commerce and Lifecycle Services for a free E-commerce Startup Bootcamp on Nov 2nd. Learn how to launch and scale your business with 1:1 consultations and sessions on crowdfunding, shipping, retail, and more. Learn More Kate Clark Meet the woman leading Accel's consumer growth investments Accel has hired Maya Noeth to lead its consumer growth investing efforts. The firm typically promotes from within; Noeth is its first outside hire in over two years. Read More… Frederic Lardinois Iron Ox opens its first fully autonomous farm For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perfecting its agricultural robots to tend its indoor farms. After first testing its systems on a... Read More… Zack Whittaker FEMA is about to send a 'Presidential Alert' to millions of U.S. phones In a few hours, millions of Americans will get a test emergency "Presidential Alert" message sent to their phone — a simulation in case the president ever needs to reach... Read More… Ryan Hoover Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders Ryan Hoover Contributor Share on Twitter Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt and host of Product Hunt Radio. More posts by this contributor Product Hunt Radio: Finding the... Read More… Sarah Perez Facebook adds A.I. to Marketplace for categorization, price suggestions and soon, visual search Facebook is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its Craigslist competitor, Facebook Marketplace, with the launch of new features powered by A.I. Specifically, the social network says it's adding price range... Read More… Ron Miller Palo Alto Networks to acquire RedLock for $173 M to beef up cloud security Palo Alto Networks launched in 2005 in the age of firewalls. As we all know by now, the enterprise expanded beyond the cozy confines of a firewall long ago and... Read More… Sarah Perez In a quest to centralize all your media, Plex now includes web series At CES, media software maker Plex said it would this year add support for podcasts, web series and other digital media to its platform. It then rolled out podcasts this... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Engineer at Code Pilot (Austin, TX, USA) SEO Manager at Guns Dot Com LLC (Richmond, VA, USA) Senior Software Engineer at Consensus (San Francisco, CA, USA) Website Programmer at United States Dressage Federation (Lexington, KY, USA) Digital Performance Marketing Director at Mother Dirt (Cambridge, MA, USA) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Unsubscribe © 2018 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107